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Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Ibert: Concerto for Cello and Wind Instruments

Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Ibert: Concerto for Cello and Wind Instruments

Jacqueline du Pré Cello

CD: 1
Tracks: 6
Length: 54:14

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BBC Legends
Rel. 16 Feb 2011
Recorded 1962-1969

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Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Ibert: Concerto for Cello and Wind Instruments This is not the Jacqueline du Pré studio recording of Dvorák's Cello Concerto. This is du Pré's live performance of Dvorák's Cello Concerto recorded on July 25, 1969, with Charles Groves conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. For many, perhaps most, listeners, du Pré's studio recording of the work is well neigh definitive: its power, its passion, its sheer emotional commitment making her recording compulsive listening. And for those listeners who already know du Pré's studio recording, this live performance will be more of the same, only more so. Because if du Pré in the studio was powerful, passionate, and committed, du Pré live is herself even more so. Her tone is incredibly powerful and intensely lyrical. Her lines are immensely passionate and enormously expressive. And her interpretation is so overwhelmingly emotionally committed that everyone listening to her performance no doubt broke out in a hot sweat. Although there are some minor flaws in du Pré's technique that become apparent when she was recorded live, everyone who loves her stunning studio recording will love her staggering live recording. The coupling of du Pré's charming performance of Ibert's delightful Concerto for cello and winds, recorded in 1962, only adds to the value of the disc as it adds a new work to du Pré's tragically small recorded repertoire. BBC's stereo in the Dvorák and monaural in the Ibert is more than adequate, if not as warmly attractive as EMI's stereo studio recording.

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1 1.Allegro 15:36
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2 2.Adagio ma non troppo 12:58
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3 3.Finale: Allegro moderato 13:44
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4 1.Pastorale. Allant 3:07
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5 2.Romance. Souple 4:02
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6 3.Gigue. Animé 4:47
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